Worldwide Food Shortages? How's your Food Storage?
Worldwide Food Shortage If the war in Ukraine is long term or expands there will be effects felt in countries that depend on Ukrainian exports. Keep in mind when you read this that the US does not import wheat but is a wheat exporter. However other countries do depend on Ukraine and Russia for wheat Ukraine, along with southwestern Russia, has long been known as “Europe’s breadbasket” thanks to the region's rich dark soil, among the most fertile in the world. The region accounts “for about 15 percent of the world’s wheat production, and nearly 30 percent of world exports,” “But it’s not just wheat,” Abis said, “the two countries account for 80 percent of the world’s sunflower oil production, and Ukraine is the world’s fourth largest exporter of maize.” (Sébastien Abis, FRANCE 24). As the fighting in Ukraine continues and the Russian offensive intensifies along the Black Sea coastline, these important crop producers have now been cut off from the ...